Category: My Talks

Instead of always playing board games to same old way, why not try out new variants that could be a lot more fun? Or better yet, make up your own? Based on the 1991 book “New Rules for Classic Games”, Jesse Himmelstein from the CRI Game Lab presents 11 techniques to finding interesting variations on…

Voici mon talk sur le projet IncLudo en fin 2017 au Capitole du Libre, à Toulouse.

The Scratch Conference last week in Bordeaux was so inspiring! Beyond the success of Scratch itself, the community is developing an approach to education based on tinkering and exploration rather than passive listening. My talk was a bit out of place, because RedWire was not meant for kids, or even to learn programming, but it…

Let’s discover fun by repurposing, reusing & upcycling old things and creating new games! During this play session, we (re) designed physical games, changed the goals & the rules of existing ones, and playfully explored new possibilities on adapting sports activities to almost any environment and for everyone. Bernie de Koven, one of the founders…

Let’s go play in the park again! Last September, we played a bunch of fun games invented in the 1960s and 70s as part of the New Games movement. Then we made up our own. We’ve just learned that one of the founders of this movement, Bernie de Koven, has stage 4 cancer. But this…

In the IncLudo project, we are making open source games to promote diversity in the workplace. After a year of building and testing game prototypes, we want to share what we’ve learned about bias, empathy, icebreakers, taboos, and board games while pursuing this important but challenging goal. The speaker is Jesse Himmelstein, coordinator of the…

Jesse Himmelstein (CRI Game Lab) introduces the EU-India project IncLudo project and the current state of games around diversity and inclusion.